Quote

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Dean Koontz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Owen West
Richard Paige
Although
Horror
Million
Writer
Millions
Times
Like

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
We live in God's amusement park.
Dean Koontz
Image
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
Dean Koontz
Image
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
Dean Koontz
Image
Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
Dean Koontz
Image
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
Dean Koontz
Image
Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.
Dean Koontz
Image
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
Image
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz
Image
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
Dean Koontz
Image
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
Dean Koontz
Image
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean Koontz
Image
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
Dean Koontz
Image
... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
Dean Koontz
Image
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.
Dean Koontz
Image
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
Dean Koontz
Image
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean Koontz
Image
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean Koontz
Image
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz
Image
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214
Dean Koontz
Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.
Dean Koontz